Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to interpret Leonid Lipavskii's “A Dialogue Poem, ” considering his view of the world.
Leonid Lipavskii (1904-1941) is a soviet philosopher, who is one of the members of the group “Chinari”, which existed in 1920s' in Leningrad.
The form of “A Dialogue Poem” is, as the title says, dialogical. In this poem “choir” insists that people, who have alternation of generations, must live in a daily life. But “One person” denies not only its opinion but also his own corporeity.
From Lipavskii's view the world is waving liquid. If a frequency of one wave is different from that of others, then the wave is comprehended as an existence. The emotion of horror appears when the frequency of one's wave is going to synchronize with that of the world, which means a deprivation of an individual.
In earlier studies it was thought that Lipavskii considered the emotion of horror as something negative and even disgusting. But in fact Lipavskii himself desires the emotion. One of the reasons is that he thinks a deprivation of an individual as “Nirvana” in Buddhism. The other is that he wants to have a view of the world itself. When one tries to know the true aspect of the world, he must feel horror. For Lipavskii the emotion of horror pays his curiosity.
We can read his above-mentioned thought not only in his philosophical texts but also in the poem “A Dialogue Poem.”
